If They Happen in Threes I’m Screwed

I need to stop with the casual lying. In the past few days I have said things that were NOT heartfelt or truthful. This has come to bite me--and several others involved—on the ass.

1) Case in point—I asked Charity to help me out and do Samuel’s taxes for him. We agreed to a fee and made plans to meet up and exchange paperwork. Due to the fact it was raining Samuel ended up taking me to the Pier where she was working that night but he didn’t have any cash and neither did I. Instead of telling Charity this, I mad the boy wiat in the car while I told her that he left town to fly home to visit with his very sick grandmother. Less then 24 hours later the boy REALLY was on a plane to the New York area.

(Before you think that I made up a terrible lie—we knew that Samuel’s grandmother was in hospital. We just didn’t know for sure how bad it was yet.)

2) This lie was a practical white lie but still managed to screw me over. I told my boss at work that I loved my job on the show and would totally stay longer if I could. I then explained how I was looking for my next job and hadn’t found anything yet and that I doubted it would be as great as this show. My boss then surprised me by extending my job another week…

(I should have kept my mouth shut.)

3) Final lie in last few days was when Mrs. Garrett told me that she just landed a new gig out of town that would last over a month. I was ‘so excited’ and yet ‘so depressed’ that she was leaving town for so long since we could have been ‘hanging out’ after next week.

Nothing has changed with her plans as of yet but with how things have been going I’m sure the job will fall through and she and I will spend days on the couch watching Meg Ryan/Reese Witherspoon films till the cows come on.

(Insert irony here.)